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First of all, let me
thank you for sending us your information on upcoming conferences, new
publications and so on. Also, I would like to thank those of you who took
the trouble of sending me their thoughts on the future of Euparl.net.
They were warmly welcomed, more than helpful and gratefully incorporated
into the efforts to professionalize our European
network.
One small, but not unimportant step in this
respect is the spreading of this newsletter, which, until recently, was
only distributed among the EuParl.net partners. To improve the visibility
of the network as well as to promote the activities of the partners,
subscription has now been opened to anyone interested in the particular
field of history covered by our institutes. So, please send us the
information on your research projects, publications, seminars and so on,
and we'll include them in this news letter. And last but not least:
invite your colleagues to subscribe to it at: www.euparl.net.
Best
wishes,
Carla van Baalen
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History of Parliament (United Kingdom) |
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Planned conferences and workshops
The History of Parliament is planning a series of major conferences
and workshops. We very much hope that EuParl partners will be closely
involved in both events, all of which aim to draw comparative lessons
across Europe and beyond. Funding is being sought for these events from a
number of sources. Further details will be posted as they are
available.
In June 2013 it will present a workshop on
'Parliaments and Mass Politics: European Lessons, 1789-2010'. Parliaments
in Britain and elsewhere were originally assemblies of political elites,
elected by elites, which deliberately tried to retain political control
within a narrow circle.
This workshop is designed to explore the impact on Parliaments and
their practices of the widening of formal participation in the political
process from the late eighteenth century to the present day, as well as
the rapid development of the mass media, and the growth of regulation of
society and the economy. One key aim of the workshop is to understand how
each country watched and drew on the experience of its neighbours in
learning how to react to the new age, and how to adapt their legislatures
to it.
In June 2014, the History is aiming to hold a
workshop on the representation and politics of minorities in Parliaments,
drawing comparative lessons from Europe about how minorities were (or
were not) effectively integrated into national political
systems.
In June 2015 the History will present a major
conference on 'The Origins and Development of Constitutional Traditions',
to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the 750th anniversary of
the De Montfort Parliament. The conference will be linked to the annual
conference of the International Commission for the History of
Representative and Parliamentary Institutions.
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Comité d'Histoire Parlementaire et Politique (France) |
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Parliaments and MEP's in France in the 18th
Century
The latest issue of Parlement(s), Revue d'histoire
politique, the French academic journal published by the CHPP, deals
with the XVIIIth century French Parliaments and their members. The
parliaments of Ancient Regime were considered for a long time as
opponents of the administrative and centralist monarchy which wished to
unify France. But for some years, their role is
reinterpreted.
In this issue, coordinated by Frederic Bidouze, an international
team of historians and jurists contributes to the renewal of the
researches on the Supreme Courts of the 18th century. Considering that
France had a customary constitution well before 1791, they emphasize
their representative dimension and they analyze differently the
activities, procedures and speech. The fiscal reforms, the remonstrance
and the 'lits de justice' are privileged case studies. These moments of
confrontation allow us to understand the parliamentary mechanics on the
action and to detect some little signs of a political culture associating
the king, the law, the nation and the public opinion. During this 18th
century, it's possible to detect, in a way, constitutionalism before
constitutionalism.
The table of contents and introduction are available online.
Parliament and Europe in the history of
Italy
Jean Garrigues, president of the CHPP, participated in a
seminar on 'Parliament and Europe in the history of Italy', from 13 to 15
May at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy. This seminar was
part of a serie of two seminars named 'Public finance and their relations
with Parliament in the history of Italy'.
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KGParl / Montesquieu Institute (Germany/The Netherlands) |
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International Conference on ‘parliamentary cultures in
Europe’ – December 2012
In 2008 the Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der
politischen Parteien (Berlin) planned three international conferences on
the subject of ‘parliamentary cultures in Europe’. The first of these
conferences, which dealt with 'parliament as communicative space', took
place in Berlin, in November 2010.
The second is scheduled for 26-27 October of this
year and will take place in Prague. It is organized by KGParl (Berlin) in
cooperation with the Tomáš Masaryk Institute and will deal with the
'Lifestyle and Professional Experiences of Parliamentarians in
Europe'.
The third conference, which will concern itself with
'Parliamentarism in Europe: Perception, Interpretation, Remembrance' will
take place in November 2012 in The Hague and will be
organized by KGParl and the Montesquieu Institute.
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Institute for Parliamentarism and Democracy Questions (Austria) |
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Conference on Good Governance in the Black Sea
Region
This conference, which took place on the 27th of May in Odessa,
Ukraine, brought together experts, academics, civil society
representatives and diplomats from different countries of the European
Union and the Black Sea region, including the Caucasus, to look at the
state of play on democratic culture and governance in the area. Topics
were reviewed to assess the quality of governance and democracy such as
media pluralism, political participation (youth, women), parliaments and
government, the rule of law and predictability, checks and balances,
reform of the judiciary, democratic control of the security forces and
local democracy.
The conference serves as a basis for a continuation of the project
through a book and follow-up conference. At a time when the image of
politics generally in many countries is not especially high, this
conference seeks to open up a debate in a strategic region to help
consolidate confidence and political stability, also by engaging local
and regional actors in this dialogue.
The Black See-project as a whole is sponsored by the Austrian
Foreign Ministry and supported by the international department of the
City of Vienna. The international conference in Odessa is organised by
Vice President of the Institute for Parliamentarism an Democracy
Questions, Dr Melanie Sully.
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KGParl / Center for Parliamentary History (Germany/The Netherlands) |
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Project: Erich Salomon as parliamentary photographer in
Berlin and The Hague. Parliamentary visual culture in the Dutch-German
comparison 1918-1940
Andreas Biefang (KGParl) / Marij Leenders
(CPG)
Political power needs openness to function. This is especially true
for systems that are based on parliaments. Modern parliaments are reliant
on public access to perform their command of representation. In the 19th
century this was mainly achieved by means of written protocols of the
parliamentary debates and by press coverage. In addition, this
parliamentary openness also had a visual side: press drawings,
photographs, caricatures, paintings and postcards.
This visual representation is the focus of this project. Its aim is
a comparative analysis of the German and Dutch visual culture in the
Interbellum period, which is embedded in the national parliamentary
culture and public sphere. Starting point and binding element will
consist of the photos that the Berlin photographer-journalist Erich
Salomon made, both in the German Reichtstag as - in exile - in
Netherlands - in both chambers of the Dutch parliament. These pictures
provide an excellent personal historical access, to a comparative
investigation into the common and different political traditions and
medial order.
An expert seminar will take place from 14 until 16 December
2011 in Nymegen, The
Netherlands
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The Montesquieu Institute (The Netherlands) |
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Masterclass 2011: European Priorities and National
Influences - How European Agenda Setting works and what we can learn from
it
This year’s annual Montesquieu Institute Masterclass focuses
primarily on processes of European and national agenda setting. The
agenda-setting related to the increasing policy interaction between
European institutions and member states is one of the most important
research topics for the Montesquieu Institute and is being executed by
Arco Timmermans (research director), Petya Alexandrova and Lucie
Spanihelova (PhD candidates), together with many MI research fellows. The
Masterclass is been taught by professionals and experts closely
affiliated with the Montesquieu Institute.
Currently, the 22 participating students are writing their final
papers on the diverse range of topics covered in the lectures. The formal
classes have been concluded and the graduation ceremony is scheduled for
the 16th of June, 2011. The ceremony will take place in the Great Hall of
the Dutch Senate.
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University of Jyväskylä and Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and
Conceptual Change (Finland) |
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The Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change
would like to draw attention to the following events, which are (partly)
organised by Finnish parliamentary scholars:
Sixth Jyväskylä Annual Symposium on Political Thought and
Conceptual History: European Conceptual History and its Parliamentary
Dimension
10-11 June 2011, Jyväskylä, Finland
Rethinking Parliaments: Concepta International Research
Training Course
13-14 June 2011, Jyväskylä, Finland
NOPSA 2011: XVI Nordic Political Science
Congress
9-12 August 2011, Vaasa, Finland
Parliamentary Discourses Across Cultures: Interdisciplinary
Approaches
23-24 September 2011, Bucharest, Romania
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Biography and Parliament (Spain) |
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'The Making of Parliaments: 19th and 20th Century, Europe
and America'
How have Parliaments been designed and how did they evolve over the
last two centuries in Europe and the Americas? Particularly, to what
extent have various kinds of parliaments been able to accommodate the
birth and rise of complex unions and how did they reflect the politics
and power relations of their time?
These questions are adressed in the publication The Making of
Parliaments: 19th and 20th Century, Europe and America, edited by
Dr. Joseba Agirreazkuenaga, head of the research group Biography and
Parliament of the University of the Basque Country
(UPV-EHU).
Developments are analysed through both horizontal comparison of
parliaments (including the French, Italian and Spanish cases) as well as
vertical, multi-level comparison of substate and the supranational
Parliaments (Europe). Special emphasis is given to the Basque and
Scottish case.
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